Waste surgical masks to fuels via thermochemical co-processing with waste motor oil and biomass.
Bioresour Technol
; 348: 126798, 2022 Mar.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1664684
ABSTRACT
In this work, the co-processing of waste surgical masks, waste motor oil, and biomass was investigated to reduce the environmental impacts of the increasing medical-derived plastic pollution as well as to elucidate its effect on the production of chemicals . The results showed high yields towards an oily product with an interesting hydrocarbon content in the diesel range. Furthermore, although the initial waste motor oil had a high sulfur content, the oily products showed a low sulfur content, that was logically distributed in the solid and gas phases. In addition, all oily products presented HHVs ââhigher than 44 MJ/Kg, with cetane indices, densities, and viscosities lower than those of petroleum-derived diesel. This work could impact on the management of waste surgical masks and the joint recovery of everyday waste towards high value-added products.
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Bioresour Technol
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Biomedical Engineering
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2022
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